2aguy
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But....but....I thought the NRA wanted to let terrorists have guns.....right?......but if the New York Times doesn't like the no fly, no buy list...do they want to arm terrorists too?
New York Times: No-Fly, No Buy for Suspected Terrorists Is a Bad Idea - The Truth About Guns
The New York Times is virulently anti-gun rights. Every day they publish a news article or screed attacking Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. So Jeffrey Kahn’s article A ‘No Buy’ List for Guns Is a Bad Idea is a breath of fresh air in the fetid swamp of their civilian disarmament jihad. It goes a little something like this:
According to an estimate provided by the director of the Terrorist Screening Center in 2014, about 9 out of 10 identities on that list are neither United States citizens nor lawful residents. Thus, they are already largely unable, or not permitted, to buy guns here . . .
Of course, you might think that eliminating even just one gun sale to a suspected terrorist is worth the effort. But that assumes these lists should be trusted in the first place. And they shouldn’t be.
The threats that the terrorist watch list and no-fly list pose to civil liberties — indeed, to the very idea of citizenship — are enormous. Watch lists are designed to circumvent the protections of due process and the separation of powers. They subvert a principle of our free society: Our rights aren’t held on loan until a government official labels us suspect, at which point they are easily stripped away; our rights are ours unless and until a court concludes that we have violated the law.
New York Times: No-Fly, No Buy for Suspected Terrorists Is a Bad Idea - The Truth About Guns
The New York Times is virulently anti-gun rights. Every day they publish a news article or screed attacking Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. So Jeffrey Kahn’s article A ‘No Buy’ List for Guns Is a Bad Idea is a breath of fresh air in the fetid swamp of their civilian disarmament jihad. It goes a little something like this:
According to an estimate provided by the director of the Terrorist Screening Center in 2014, about 9 out of 10 identities on that list are neither United States citizens nor lawful residents. Thus, they are already largely unable, or not permitted, to buy guns here . . .
Of course, you might think that eliminating even just one gun sale to a suspected terrorist is worth the effort. But that assumes these lists should be trusted in the first place. And they shouldn’t be.
The threats that the terrorist watch list and no-fly list pose to civil liberties — indeed, to the very idea of citizenship — are enormous. Watch lists are designed to circumvent the protections of due process and the separation of powers. They subvert a principle of our free society: Our rights aren’t held on loan until a government official labels us suspect, at which point they are easily stripped away; our rights are ours unless and until a court concludes that we have violated the law.
